[pfdietz]

I was thinking more of advances in manufacturing that would make living on Mars more self-sustaining. Labor will be extremely expensive in space, so extreme levels of automation would be very useful.

I doubt the sort of teleportation you are talking about there could be made to work, but if we assume that it could, it would make Mars more like Antarctica than colonial North America. It would be a place to visit, but would just be a research appendage without its own self-sustaining population or manufacturing infrastructure.